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thismeintiel on 21 December 2012
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Gamerace said:
Miguel_Zorro said:

Who supports their system the longest will be determined by which console keeps selling, earning the support.

Case in point - Wii sales took a nosedive before the WiiU was announced.  I remember when people here were discussing whether the Wii would eventually outsell the PS2 - it's going to come up 50 million short, because it didn't have longetivity.

Creating a product with legs to sell over the long term has merit.

There are movies like Titanic or E.T. that grow with time.  Then there are movies like Twilight that do massive box office sales at the beginning, but see massive drops week to week.  The Wii is Twilight.  I bought one.  I don't play it.

People don't say Titanic's box office is irrelevant because it stayed in theatres longer to hit the numbers it did, even though it took a relatively long 25 days to reach $200 million.

You're oversimplying it.

Sony is well known to support old consoles for long periods and has an amazing pipeline into developing countries.  PS2 still sells well in some countries to this day.

MS on the other hand isn't available in a lot of those same countries and they abandoned the original Xbox completely after 360 came out.    I expect 360 will be much better supported (as it's sold much better) after the next system releases, but very unlikely as well as PS3 will be.

As for your Wii hate.  Whatever.  Neither system is likely to ever catch the Wii's sales.  That's just life.  Doesn't matter to me one way or the other.  I'm more interested in what's happening with this current/coming gen.

The only reason Sony continues to support its consoles for a long time is because they continue to sell.  The PS2, for example, has outshipped the DS so far this year, which is incredible considering the PS2 is 4 years older than the DS.  Now, if the PS2 was barely selling, as well as only breaking even or only being a slight profit, then Sony would have dropped it years ago.  As for the Wii, I can see the PS3 catching up to the Wii.  Probably not passing it, but it can definitely come within 5M of it if the PS3 conitues its slow drop YOY.